How To
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How To
'RIDICULOUS, DELIGHTFUL AND, DAMN IT, EDUCATIONAL' Sunday Times, Books of the Year.
Welcome to the world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer
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How To by Randall Munroe is a unique and ingenious guide that turns conventional wisdom on its head, offering humorous and highly impractical solutions to everyday challenges. This is not your typical self-help book; it dives into the fantastical and laugh-out-loud world of Munroe’s imagination, where humour and science blend seamlessly.
From the mind behind the beloved webcomic XKCD and the bestselling What If? and Thing Explainer, Munroe delivers another masterpiece with How To. Here, the author explores the absurd possibilities of accomplishing tasks in the most complicated and often most entertaining ways. Whether it's landing a plane by simulating the Earth's rotation or digging a hole to the other side of the planet, Munroe's recommendations are as informative as they are hilarious.
Randall Munroe is...
'Nerd royalty' - Ben Goldacre
'Totally brilliant' - Tim Harford
'Laugh-out-loud funny' - Bill Gates
'Wonderful' - Neil Gaiman
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
For every task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.
Munroe’s latest book is perfect for fans of offbeat science, comedy, and innovative problem-solving. His unconventional methods are not meant for actual use, but they offer a fascinating exploration of how scientific principles can be stretched to their limits.
'How strange science can fix everyday problems' - New Scientist
'A brilliant book: clamber in for a wild ride' - Nature
With his trademark wit and insightful explanations, Munroe opens your eyes to the incredible—and often ridiculous—world of scientific thinking. How To is sure to entertain, enlighten, and inspire readers to look at the world a little differently.
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How To by Randall Munroe has been described as a perfect guide for curious minds, combining hard science with whimsical elements. It offers ridiculously delightful and educational content, presenting extremely accurate and amusing answers to everyday issues. The book is consistently fascinating and entertaining, providing complicated yet clever solutions to simple tasks with solid scientific understanding.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781473680340
Publisher: John Murray Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 September 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly, Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 273g
Pages: 336
About the Author
Randall Munroe is the creator of the webcomic xkcd and bestselling author of What If?, Thing Explainer and xkcd: Volume 0. Randall was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, and grew up outside Richmond, Virginia. After studying physics at Christopher Newport University, he got a job building robots at NASA Langley Research Center. In 2006 he left NASA to draw comics on the internet full time, and has since been nominated for a Hugo Award three times. The International Astronomical Union recently named an asteroid after him: asteroid 4942 Munroe is big enough to cause mass extinction if it ever hits a planet like Earth.
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